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Manatee

Manatee is a corpus manager --- software tool for a text processing.
A corpus is understood here as a huge collection of texts in
electronic form. It is used as a resource of the empirical language
data, i.e. words, their meanings and contexts they occur in. Corpora
can be employed in many fields of linguistics (morphology, syntax,
semantics, stylistics, sociolinguistics etc.) and the corpus managers
are primary tools enabling corpus exploration.

The whole system consists of two parts: server (manateesrv) and a
graphical user interface (GUI) client Bonito.
You can download either the Manatee (server and client) or separate client
from the download page.

System requirements

The new version of the client is a web-based application. Any modern web browser can be used. The server is running as a CGI script on a web server.

Pre-encoded SUSANNE Corpus

If you would like to test the Manatee system immediately you can
download pre-encoded SUSANNE Corpus from the download page.
From its documentation:

The SUSANNE Corpus was created, with the sponsorship of the Economic
and Social Research Council (UK) at the University of Sussex, as part
of the process of developing a comprehensive
language-engineering-oriented taxonomy and annotation scheme for the
(logical and surface) grammar of English. The Corpus
itself comprises an approximately 130,000-word subset of the Brown
Corpus of American English, annotated in accordance with the SUSANNE
scheme.

The Corpus was build from the original SUSANNE (Release 5) sources (see http://www.grsampson.net/) using
a tranformation script which made some simplification: